Akintokunbo A Adejumo

Akintokunbo Adejumo, a social and political commentator on Nigerian issues, lives and works in London, UK. He is a graduate of the University of Ibadan, Nigeria (1979) and University of Manitoba, Canada (1985). He also writes on topical issues for iNigerian.com and other newspapers and internet media including Nigeriaworld, Nigeria Today Online, Washington Nigerian Times, Wise News Today, etc.
Nigeria Matters

Independence Day: A Historical Journey on Nigeria’s Creation

Akintokunbo A Adejumo -
While we may have gained independence from the British in 1960, the last forty-eight years has certainly not been independent to the majority of Nigerians, because we are still enslaved to a small cabal of ingeniously evil, corrupt, selfish, greedy, mad and murderous people in power, who have brought us to our knees…
Nigeria Matters

On the History of Nigeria Railways

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What was left for us by the British as a legacy of colonialism, we found it difficult to build on, not to talk of sustaining and improving it, contrary to such in other parts of the world. That is the way Nigeria has gone…
Life Abroad

The Story of Julianah Balogun-Oke, A Champion Mother

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Seventeen UK newspapers and five television stations carried the news of one Mrs Julianah Balogun-Oke, a Nigerian single mother in London whose quadruplets had all been admitted to various Ivy League universities in the UK…
Nigeria Matters

Reflections On Patriotism and Nigerian Unity (Part 2)

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The word "Patriotism" projects a vision of billions of Chinese waving flags, or millions of Americans waving flags and singing their national anthems with nationalistic emotions. Well, don't we do the same in Nigeria, even as we profess not to be that patriotic?
Nigeria Matters

Reflections on Patriotism And Nigerian Unity

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Nigeria don spoil! Nigeria is a failed state! Nigeria na yeye! There is no hope for Nigeria! Nigeria has to break up! Nigeria and Nigerians cannot change! Nigeria cannot be united! Nigeria as a united country is impossible! You can't change Nigeria! There's nothing like one Nigeria! You are a fool to think Nigeria can be better or progress or develop!
Nigeria Matters

The Niger Delta and Nigeria

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Nigeria is sitting on a keg of gunpowder, especially with the Niger Delta and all the issues surrounding it. Things are degenerating very fast in this region and only sincere, focused, impartial and committed leaders will be able to defuse these problems, or else there will be no North, South, Niger Delta or indeed, Nigeria for anybody to call their own...
Nigeria Matters

An Abject Abdication of Responsibility

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Most of us who are offended by our wayward ways as a nation need to minimise the  analyses and come together in order to initiate something that will catalyse positive change in our society in decades to come...
Nigeria Matters

The Madness Of Our Leaders

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Some of our Nigerian politicians and leaders are so mad that that they keep their loot in their houses; some of them even bury cash in graves; while some of them just go on buying every property and business in sight, despite the fact that they can only sleep in one room at a time...
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